6PEQ5E KaStir CA' ROSH HASHANA CARRY-OUT MENU church in nearby Coeur D'Alene. who has "ministered" to a long list They were quickly arrested, tried of violent neo-Nazis, has never been and sentenced; Butler, who'd manip- charged. Matthew Hale, whose ulated Dorr like a puppet, was never World Church of the Creator rav- charged. He danced away from a ings may have triggered Benjamin conspiracy-to-commit-sedition Smith's July 4 rampage, turned a charge press conference into a forum for b in ;n the late '80s. In the '90s, Butler was recruiting anti-Semitism and white supremacy. skinhead thugs hosting rock concerts These men have also been able at Hayden Lake. Aryan Nations was to manipulate the government they on the rise, opening chap- are sworn to bring ters in dozens of cities. down. In Idaho and By then I saw the pat- Illinois, neo-Nazis tern. A "leader" would have marched, insist- incite a cadre of violent ing that terror, harass- and emotionally suscepti- ment and defamation ble followers, then furi- is a civil right. These ously backpedal beyond men I had seen spit in the reach of prosecutors the faces of Asian and when blood was shed. The Latin children. murderers were hailed as This summer they are heroes, patriots, martyrs on the march again, and saints; the victims tapping a vein of anti- dehumanized. Semitism that extends Vincent Coppola is Some leaders have faced managing editor of the as far back as the charges under federal anti- Atlanta Jewish Times, Middle Ages; exulting racketeering laws, but in the terrible synergy sister publication to the sympathetic jurors have that amplifies every vile Jewish News. He is the acquitted, apparently buy- author of Dragons of act; polluting the ing the line that the lead- God/A Journey Through Internet, exploiting mil- ers really didn't have much Far-Right America. lennial unease. to do with the followers' It may be an artifact penchant for violence. In of a bloody season, a other cases, the government seems to blip on the radar screen that will soon have given up before it started. fade, but our reporting consistently Pete Peters, a Colorado Identity shows that Jews who have lived and preacher, gave refuge to Alan Berg's prospered for generations are sudden- killers and was never prosecuted. ly, uneasy. Timothy McVeigh visited Elohim Richard Butler, now in his 80s, City, an Identity compound, before remains beyond the law. The tragedy he bombed in Oklahoma City. is this twisted creature may go to his Elohim's founder, Robert Millar, grave laughing. ❑ learned on June 30 that the rally had been set for July 17. It can be very devastating to a community when the Klan comes in," Chambers said. "I didn't want to hear, 'How come no one stood up and did anything?'" Camp Tavor joined a dozen area churches, many local businesses and political leaders in co-sponsoring the event. "The community really came together under duress," said Chambers, president of Three Rivers Area Hospital, which donat- ed its Healthtrac facilities and staff for the event. Located about 25 miles south of Kalamazoo, Three Rivers is a town of about 8,000, with more than 30,000 people of various ethnic groups within easy driving distance, Chambers said. 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